L.A. the BTS

This shoot was way back in July but I didn’t really have time to edit the BTS (Behind The Scene) video.

Today I thought I’d sit down and do a quick one that I want to share.

Model: Lauren Ashley

MUA & Hair Stylist: Dave Reid

Flick the video in full screen and full HD mode.

Mola in da house

The postman stopped by today to drop a big box: a Mola Setti beauty dish.

Thanks to Bang & Thuy @ TomKat Photography to do some shopping for me.

When I finished setting it up, I couldn’t resist to do a quick test shoot. By 11pm, it’s not easy to find a model around so I did some stills from whatever was hanging around.

Shot with a Canon 5D and a Carl Zeiss lens. Photos pretty much straight out of camera and cropped in post.

Click on these links to see more details (Photo1, Photo2, Photo3).

Needless to say that I am planing a shoot very soon to push this “little” beauty to her limits.

Check this space soon.

S5

Between two weddings, edits and album designs, I managed to escape the studio to do a shoot with a few new faces in the industry.

What was planned to be a one model shoot turned out to be a … 5 model shoot.

The girls were just gorgeous and courageous to brave the wind to do the shoot. A special thank to the two talented ans awesome make up artists, Bindi Kelly and Jolina O’Hair.

For this particular shoot I didn’t plan to have a hair stylist as I wanted some wild floating hair and the wind helped us a bit with this.

Check out a few images below.

Stay tuned as I’ll be releasing the video of the BTS (behind the scene) filmed with an iPhone 4.

Back soon.

Shooting Goodbye

Last Thursday shoot was a particular one as I “shot” one of my models, and friend, Ali Bromley just before she leaves to Sydney.

The shoot was particular in the way that it was planned in a very short time and we kept changing the theme all the time. I may say that arriving on set, I even didn’t know what exactly I was going to create.

The location was once again provided by the handsome Ben Appleton, we shot in the Penthouse of the Hotel Realm, in Barton, Canberra.

I wanted to play with colours and shooting a low key fashion session so I just brought a few small flash guns and mainly prime lenses.

The session was shot with a Canon 1D Mark IV along with the Canon EF 24 f/1.4 L II, 24 mm f/3.5 TSE L II, 50 f/1.2 L and 85 f/1.2 L II. One zoom lens was in the bag, the EF 16-35 f/2.8 L II.

Ali was wearing the make up by Bindi Kelly.

Other models on the set were Stefania Kightley and Stephanie Dontadd.

The make up for both models was by Kate Wal.

I also had the services of two male models, Nigel Hawkins and of course Ben Appleton (both make up by Bindi Kelly).

There was a special guest: Mr Speck the green python (coming along with Ali) and an unexpected and handsome guest Robert Boseski, Steffie’s boyfriend.

We had fun. More to come.

M2 the BTS

Behind the scene of M2.

All the talents involved.

Models: Sian & Asha Warren, Sandi O’Dea, Effie Stav, Tamsin Starick and Ben Appleton

MUAs: Charlotte Clark, Vanessa Fernandez & Kylie Bersinic

Hair Stylists: Priya Chandra, Bree & Kayla from Pink Diamond Hair

Guest photographer and assistant for BTS video: RC

Don’t forget to hit the HD button and watch it in full screen mode.

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